Question
British businesses producing this good in Port Talbot were nationalized by Harold Wilson in 1967. A Sheffield resident who revolutionized the production of this good lends his name to an Alabama town whose Amazon workers failed to unionize in 2021. Responding to a prize sponsored by Napoleon, Friedrich Krupp built a factory in 1811 named for manufacturing this material. The London headquarters of the Hanseatic League was named for a (*) “yard” of this material. It’s not coal, but Robert Schuman helped organize a multinational economic community named for this good. Production of this good was made more efficient by an invention of Henry Bessemer. For 10 points, name this alloy essential to building skyscrapers. ■END■
ANSWER: steel [accept steelyard; accept European Coal and Steel Community; prompt on iron or pig iron or metals or alloys] (The town is Bessemer, AL, named after Henry.)
<Michael Bentley, History - European - 1900+> ~22450~ <Editor: Michael Bentley>
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Sam McNamee | Maggie Walker A | Dunbar | 38 | 0 |
Aiden Dombrosky | Hoover B | Detroit Catholic Central B | 40 | 20 |
Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | Rockford Auburn A | 51 | 0 |
Andrew Shi | Thomas Jefferson A | Barrington A | 51 | 0 |
Rushil Murikinati | Plymouth | Richard Montgomery | 53 | 0 |
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Kritanu Saha | Mercer County | Waukee | 56 | 0 |
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Ren Giusti | Norman | Stevenson B | 58 | 0 |
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Hari Veginati | Stevenson A | Carbondale | 68 | 20 |
Kaitlyn Leonard | Barrington B | Lincoln-Way East | 72 | 10 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Irvington A | 73 | 10 |
Vishesh Verma | Troy | Johns Creek A | 73 | 10 |
Ian Mann | Walter Payton | Midtown | 73 | 10 |
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Ulden Gao | Winston Churchill B | Hinsdale Central | 76 | 0 |
Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Mira Loma | Woodland | 79 | 10 |
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Nate Mroz | Detroit Catholic Central C | Washington | 103 | 10 |
Luke Snyder | Rockford Auburn B | John Adams A | 103 | 10 |
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Joshua Fan | Richard Montgomery | Plymouth | 114 | 10 |
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